Code: PVM111 or PVM123
Title: Prevocational Mathematics
Coordinator: Mr Michael Craven

Prevocational Mathematics provides opportunities for students to improve their numeracy to assist them in pursuing a range of vocational and personal goals. It develops not only students’ confidence and positive attitudes towards mathematics but also their mathematical knowledge and skills, and their communication skills.

Topics

• Mathematics for interpreting society: number (study area core)
• Mathematics for interpreting society: data
• Mathematics for personal organisation: location and time
• Mathematics for practical purposes: measurement
• Mathematics for personal organisation: finance

Assessment

Year 11 - Semester 1

• Group research: Spreadsheets, graphs and tables, scaffolded activities
• In-class design project, group work, individual report - oral and written
• Folio of worksheets completed, scaffolded activities
• Test - student notebooks, texts and teacher assistance available, with scaffolding

Year 11 - Semester 2

• Investigation - pair work. Oral and written presentation
• Folio of worksheets completed, scaffolded activities
• In-class tests - student notebooks, texts and teacher assistance available, reduced scaffolding
• Class project - group work. Individual report

Year 12 - Semester 1

• Report on planning an event in pairs or individually. Format negotiable eg Power point
• Design project, product negotiable. Group work, individual report with a poster
• Folio of worksheets completed in class, some scaffolded activities
• Test - student notebooks, texts and teacher assistance available

Year 12 - Semester 2

• In-class assignment, group work, individual oral and written report
• Folio of worksheets completed in class
• Test - student notebooks, texts and teacher assistance available

At completion students should be able to

• build confidence and experience success when using mathematics in everyday contexts
• improve their preparedness for entry to work, apprenticeships, traineeships, or further study by developing their numeracy
• develop skills such as using a calculator, identifying, measuring, locating, interpreting, estimating, applying, communicating, explaining, problem solving, making informed decisions, and working cooperatively with others and in teams
• be able to organise mathematical ideas and represent them in a number of ways such as objects and pictures, numbers and symbols, rules, diagrams and maps, graphs, tables and texts
• be able to present findings orally and in writing
• be able to use relevant technologies
• be able to make informed decisions

Integrated technology

Computers and calculators

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.